On Fri, Mar 31, 2000, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
; > 82557, 82558, 82559 all share the same PCI Device ID so they all appear
; > in the driver and in the proc file system as 82557 with this patch we
; > have all the information centralized so users are less confused and
; > you don't need to carry specs with you or open the box to figure out
; > which chip does your NIC carry, right now the driver doesn't take any
; > advantage of that information, but since each chip has slightly different
; > personality or errata I would like to take advantage of that information
; > in the driver, later on.
;
; You dont need it in the driver for anything you are doing right now you can
; use lspci. I've had some discussion with intel about fixing the licensing
; for the eepro100 driver they released so that we can merge the two (they
; have support for more boards, ucode for interrupt mitigation, errata workarounds
; and portability and locking flaws.
;
; I have a positive answer I dont quite understand 8) from the Intel lawyers
That's where I was heading but I was not aware that intel is reconsidering
their license... Did they give you any time frames to when the intel driver
might be release under a more compatible license?
Thanks
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